Fania Oz-Salzberger Awarded the Fiuggi Storia Europa Prize

Fania Oz-Salzberger is a historian of ideas and political thought. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Haifa and is among “the most important Israeli scholars.” She is also the daughter of Amos Oz, “the writer who turned words into weapons of peace and doubt into a moral compass.”
For these reasons, the jury of the Fiuggi Storia Prize, a prestigious Italian history award, decided to honor her with the Fiuggi Storia Europa Prize. Oz-Salzberger, an internationally recognized expert on Niccolò Machiavelli, could not attend the ceremony as she was participating in an Israeli conference dedicated to the Italian founder of modern political science.
Pino Pelloni, the soul of the Fiuggi Storia, said that “she will soon be in Italia and part of a cultural initiative entirely dedicated to her work.” “Every year, FiuggiStoriaEuropa celebrates scholars focusing on Italy. In 2023, we honored another Israeli historian, Tamar Herzig, an expert on the Renaissance,” he continued. Herzig was chosen during a time when the feminist movement was largely silent about the violence Hamas perpetrated against women on October 7. Born in 1960 in the Hulda kibbutz, Fania Oz-Salzberger studied at Tel Aviv University. She earned her Ph.D. at Oxford with a thesis on Scottish and German Illuminism. She has published essays in the history of ideas and political thought, translation in the European Enlightenment, the biblical sources of John Locke, and intercivilizational conflict. Her opinion pieces on politics, culture, and current affairs have been published in major international media outlets.